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Elizabeth I of England

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“This is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes.”
— Her reaction when she was told she was Queen (17 November 1558)
“Kings were wont to honour philosophers, but if I had such I would honour them as angels that should have such piety in them that they would not seek where they are the second to be the first, and where the third to be the second and so forth.”
— Response to Parliament (October 1566)
“Though I be a woman yet I have as good a courage answerable to my place as ever my father had. I am your anointed Queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. I thank God I am endued with such qualities that if I were turned out of the Realm in my petticoat I were able to live in any place in Christendom.”
— Response to Parliament (October 1566)
“Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.”
— Letter (1581)
“Must is not a word to be used to princes! Little man, little man, if your father had lived, ye durst not have said so much: but thou knowest I must die, and that maketh thee so presumptuous.”
— To Robert Cecil when he said, in her final illness (March 1603), that she must go to bed.
“If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.”
— Rhyming response written on a windowpane beneath Sir Walter Raleigh's writing: "Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall." As quoted in The History of the Worthies of England (1662) by Thomas Fuller

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“This is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes.”
— Her reaction when she was told she was Queen (17 November 1558)
“Kings were wont to honour philosophers, but if I had such I would honour them as angels that should have such piety in them that they would not seek where they are the second to be the first, and where the third to be the second and so forth.”
— Response to Parliament (October 1566)
“Though I be a woman yet I have as good a courage answerable to my place as ever my father had. I am your anointed Queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. I thank God I am endued with such qualities that if I were turned out of the Realm in my petticoat I were able to live in any place in Christendom.”
— Response to Parliament (October 1566)
“Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.”
— Letter (1581)
“Must is not a word to be used to princes! Little man, little man, if your father had lived, ye durst not have said so much: but thou knowest I must die, and that maketh thee so presumptuous.”
— To Robert Cecil when he said, in her final illness (March 1603), that she must go to bed.
“If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.”
— Rhyming response written on a windowpane beneath Sir Walter Raleigh's writing: "Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall." As quoted in The History of the Worthies of England (1662) by Thomas Fuller

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.